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Electricfox777 - 2 characters & bkg.It's 2012 and the end is nigh, as some say. While I, like most of people
known to me don't expect any cosmological dissaster nor sudden acts of
our planet violent nature, I have to admit, that in some way - the end is
near.
It's not the end of the world, but the end of internet as we know it. Lately,
SOPA & PIPA acts caused quite a stir over various sites, some, like FA and
Wikipedia protested it - for understandable reasons. As I understand, the
voting on it was delayed - although not ceased. But I think that the whole
mess is doing a good deed for another act, which somehow goes under
the radar. This act involves place I live in, European Union and it'll be voted
on 26.01, if I remember it well. It's called Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
Agreement, ACTA, for short. You can find the whole text in pdf,
here's the link. Since I'm getting
down to read it, I can't go into much details but I can tell one thing for sure -
this smells really bad.
First thing, visble on the very fist page of the document - "This document
contains information that is not to be treated as Foreign goverment confidential."
Why a document that talks about things that - as it's maker and pushers say -
touch the matters of intelectual property has the confidential note? Ok., I can
understand the confidentiality if it's only a prototype, an early version of the document
for various legislators and such, but it's [b]going to be voted on days and basicly almost
no one even HEARD about it![b] Why is that? Why the citizens aren't informed about
act that will be regulating things like intelectual property?
Simple - because it's not an act that would do so. It's yet another attemt to
enforce laws on your internet provider to monitor every action you take and be ready,
under heavy penalties, to give those informations away to goverment agencies and
corporate behemoths, without any hesitation or discussion. Nobody even talks about
it on the media, because even the most stupid internet user would understand, after
reading few lines from wikipedia entry about it, that it is a tool of opression. At least,
I hope he would.
I remember back in a day, when I was 14 and more, when my interest in conspiracy
theories started. I also remember the most common reaction of most folks to it -
smirks, sighs, all that jazz. Now, my friends aren't joking about it anymore. We all
see, or we should see, what's happening. Laws are being pushed behind our backs,
laws that touch matters we should be interested in - that we should be informed
of.
And thus, the end is nigh.
Sorry for the rant, but things are tense as fuck right now. It's one of these cases
when I care and I feel almost totally helpless about it.
The one thing I find especially shamefull is the fact that polish presidency, which ended at the end of 2011, stated that pushing this act through the legislature process was one of it's priorities.
Way to go, from helping to abolish communism to enforcing a corporate one. Way to go.
The fucks up on high chairs don't want to listen to our voices, so what then? Physical opposition?
Until then, we have to carry on protesting by any legal means.
so If it passes, we're going to attempt to take down the MPAA, all movie/music/game companies that supported the bill, and cause massive problems for any government official who voted yes to the bills, such as sending hate mail and well...
to take a page from 4chan.
"mass pizza orders, crates of condoms, sex toys, etc."
Pirating everything and sending hate mail is risky, but if the bill passes, yes, it'll be some way to get message straight. Still, I'm afraid that the USA gov. will do the same as they do with Wikileaks - brand us "terrorists" and if they'll find the protestors connection to the Annonymous and/or 4chan, the'll add another fear-inflicting label "peadophile". And from that accusing words spewed from the mouth of goverment, there is no defense.
Live Free or Die Hard? I'm afraid that it may be so, but still many brainless sheep will support their "caretakers" as long as they'll be able to use Facebook.
This is a war the government Will NEVER be able to win.
argh. so frustrated.
1. Your internet provider will be obliged to store every move you make on the interet as well as your personal data.
2. If some kind of company will believe that you might hurt their buisness in any way, they can call your internet provider
and ask for your personal data and history of browsing, downloading, etc.
- and, since the companies don't have direct and constant ways of monitoring it, either they'll going to be catch random
folks at random times - depending on their humour - or would have to hire a tech guy to browse as much of the
internet traffic as he can, when the annual data from your and other internet providers will come. Or, in the "brighter
future" - hire a CPU capable of doing this action on it's own.
3. You'll recieve an e-mail that would most certaintly look like this :
"[i]Dear Mr. Pirate, we know what you are doing - the analysys of your internet trafic on day 0X.0X.0X showed us that you were
illegaly downloading content that is copyrighter by our company. Since we don't want to go through all the trouble - for us and
for you - of legislative, jurisdical process, please send us 500$ as a mean of acknowledging your error and a small token of
recompensate for our company.
Sincirely - X Company[i]"
4. If you'd ignore that, you'll probably recieve a mail order to show in court on upcoming days. And facing a lawyer hired by
a company like, let's say Nike or Universal Music means you're pretty much screwed.
i think that they would charge more than that, maybe?